Ali Avaz

Ali Avaz, who was born in Harput district of Elazığ on March 2, 1936, spent his childhood years in Mersin, Elazığ and İzmir. In primary school, he wrote his play "Lesson at Home" and won second place in a competition. During his youth, he founded the "Ali Harputlu Theatre" and went on a five-year tour of Anatolia, staged the play he wrote, "Sarı Çizmeli Mehmet Ağa", and in 1971, he re-staged this play with a new cast consisting of Nezihe Güler, Necip Tekçe, Baki Tamer and Güngör Küçükertuğran, and made a 72-day tour. After this tour, he retired from the theater stage.

Avaz, who founded Istanbul Plak with Poet Söğütoğlu in 1962, had a big breakthrough with his parody called "Ali Getting Married" in the same year and released his records focusing on "Gırgır" style humor and political criticism. The company was one of the first companies to introduce stereo recordings in Turkey; During this period, Gönül Akkor's 45-minute recording titled "What You Promised Me" was also released.

The first 45s of artists such as Erkin Koray, Mine Koşan, Arif Sağ and Çetin Alp were prepared by Ali Avaz, and due to Cem Karaca's song "May 1", it was ranked 141-142. He was tried under criminal charges and his tapes were confiscated. In an environment where even the name of Nâzım Hikmet was intimidated, Karaca wrote works such as "Sheikh Bedrettin Epic"; Then, he worked with Zeki Müren, Gönül Akkor, Yıldıray Çınar and many artists with the program "Safinaz". The proliferation of pirated cassettes at the end of 1979 led him to withdraw from music production.

Avaz, who entered the world of cinema in 1972 with the movie "Sarı Öküz Parası" directed by Nişan Hançer, also appeared on the screens with his next project, "Hacı Ağalar Kralı". The artist, who won many awards throughout his artistic life, was crowned with the "Artists of the Century, Honor Award" at Kadıköy Public Education Center on April 27, 2010.

The records he recorded in the 1970s were converted into four cassettes in 1981; These tapes contained political satire, dialogues with female artists and comedy songs, and were re-released more than 30 times by various companies, and some of the tracks were used as movie soundtracks.

Ali Avaz, who passed away on 27 November 2013 in the hospital in Istanbul where he was treated due to health problems, was a musician of Turkish folk music,

Productions in which he took part

• German Woman's Sister (1990)
• German Woman 40 Thousand Marks (1988)

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.